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Theoretical Particle Physics
Module PH1005
Module version of SS 2022 (current)
There are historic module descriptions of this module. A module description is valid until replaced by a newer one.
Whether the module's courses are offered during a specific semester is listed in the section Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature below.
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Basic Information
PH1005 is a semester module in English or German language at Master's level which is offered in summer semester.
This Module is included in the following catalogues within the study programs in physics.
- Theory courses for nuclear, particle, and astrophysics
- Complementary catalogue of special courses for condensed matter physics
- Complementary catalogue of special courses for Biophysics
- Complementary catalogue of special courses for Applied and Engineering Physics
- Specialization Modules in Elite-Master Program Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (TMP)
If not stated otherwise for export to a non-physics program the student workload is given in the following table.
Total workload | Contact hours | Credits (ECTS) |
300 h | 90 h | 10 CP |
Responsible coordinator of the module PH1005 is Nora Brambilla.
Content, Learning Outcome and Preconditions
- Construction, structure and symmetries of the Standard Model of Particle Physics
- Electroweak symmetry breaking and Higgs physics
- Quantumchromodynamics and elementary strong interaction processes
- Flavour physics and flavor mixing
- Elements of neutrino physics
- Overview of physics beyond the Standard Model
Learning Outcome
After taking part in this course the student has acquired the most updated knowledge of the Standard Model of theoretical particle physics and its problems, and acquired the tools to start a master work in theoretical particle physics with emphasis on phenomenology.
The student is able to
1. write down the full Standard-Model Lagrangian, and understand the field content and the structure of every term in it.
2. derive the transformation properties of the terms in the Standard Model Lagrangian under C, P, T, and global symmetries, and derive conservation laws from symmetry principles.
3. derive the Feynman rules in the Standard Model, draw Feynman diagrams for any given process allowed in the Standard Model, and perform perturbative calculations to one loop using the Feynman rules and dimensional regularization.
4. describe electroweak symmetry breaking in terms of the Higgs mechanism, derive consequences of different patterns of electroweak symmetry breaking, and derive consequences of the custodial symmetry and its violation.
5. describe quark mixing in terms of the CKM matrix, and derive GIM suppression in processes with flavor-changing neutral currents.
6. derive the chiral anomaly equation, the cancellation of the gauge anomalies and the violation of the baryon number and the lepton number in the Standard Model.
7. describe the strong CP problem and its possible solutions.
8. calculate CP violating observables in the mixing and decays of neutral kaons and B mesons, and their relation to the CKM matrix.
9. describe the main production and decay channels of the Higgs boson at the LHC.
10. describe the quantum corrections to the Higgs mass and the Higgs potential, the stability of the vacuum, and the hierarchy problem.
11. describe neutrino oscillations in terms of the masses of the neutrinos, derive possible mass terms of the neutrinos, and explain neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism.
"Relativity, Particle and Fields" course and/or the "Quantum Field Theory"
course or some general knowledge of Quantum Field Theory.
Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature
Courses and Schedule
Type | SWS | Title | Lecturer(s) | Dates | Links |
VO | 4 | Theoretical Particle Physics | Brambilla, N. |
Tue, 12:00–14:00, virtuell Thu, 08:30–10:00, virtuell |
eLearning documents |
UE | 2 | Tutorial to Theoretical Particle Physics |
Mohapatra, A.
Qerimi, G.
Vander Griend, P.
Responsible/Coordination: Brambilla, N. |
dates in groups |
documents |
Learning and Teaching Methods
The lectures focus on both concepts and technical details, as well as comparisons to the most up-to-date experimental data. Exercise sheets are assigned to the students for both deepening their understanding of the lecture materials and hands-on experience of calculations. Exercise sheets are discussed in the tutorial classes, in which students present their own solutions to the exercise sheets in detail on the blackboard.
blackboard, sometimes with slides.
- B. Martin and G. Shaw, Particle Physics, Wiley, 2008.
- D. Griffith, Introduction to Elementary Particle, Wiley-VCH 2008.
- F. Halzen and A. Martin, Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics, 1984, John Wiley and Sons
- O. Nachtmann, Elementary Particle Physics, Springer-Verlag 1990.
- M. Peskin and D. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Addison Wesley, 1995.
- C. Burgess and G. Moore, The Standard Model: A Primer, Cambridge University Press 2007
- J. F. Donoghue, E. Golowich, and B. R. Holstein, Dynamics of the standard model, vol. 2, Camb. Monogr. Part. Phys. Nucl. Phys. Cosmol., 1992.
- T. Cheng, L. Li, Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics, Oxford University Press, 1985.
- R. K. Ellis, W. J. Stirling, B.R. Webber, QCD and Collider Physics, Camb. Monogr. Part. Phys. Nucl. Phys. Cosmol., 1996
Module Exam
Description of exams and course work
There will be a written exam of 120 minutes duration. Therein the achievement of the competencies given in section learning outcome is tested exemplarily at least to the given cognition level using calculation problems and comprehension questions.
For example an assignment in the exam might be:
- Derive the transformation of a given operator under C, P, T.
- Show anomaly cancellation in a given gauge theory.
- Compute observables for CP violation.
In the exam no learning aids are permitted.
Participation in the exercise classes is strongly recommended since the exercises prepare for the problems of the exam and rehearse the specific competencies.
Exam Repetition
The exam may be repeated at the end of the semester.

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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
I've been doing some looking at the Atom stuff and it looks pretty good. However, I've also ran across a few places that compare the new VIA processors to the Atom, and their testing shows the new VIA boards are better overall. Not only are they roughly 30% faster overall, but according to what I've read VIA is very open about what manufacturers can put on their boards while Intel is being very restrictive. From one of the articles:http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=597"If there is egg to be thrown in anyone's face from this article, it is on Intel for its locking down of the Atom platform. Since Computex this year I have been hearing complaints from board vendors on the amount of restrictions Intel is putting on them for Atom products. Vendors are not allowed to build Atom motherboards with PCI Express, digital video outputs or more than one memory slot. VIA on the other hand is openly courting board manufacturers to put as much technology on a mini-ITX design as they can - as long as the DO build one! "This article is almost a year old, so maybe things have changed?I did try doing a couple searches here, but when you search for VIA you get a plethora of stuff like "changing this via doing that" type stuff, and searching for via nano doesn't give much.I try to keep an eye on this forum, but I miss a lot of posts and searching didn't help much. Please forgive me if this has been discussed at length already.In the past there has been some talk about improved chrome drivers, but it seems with the new Atom boards being available the VIA boards have somewhat lost interest. I guess I'd just like to hear a discussion on these two options. Pros and cons. Things like the VIA boards have better performance, but the integrated graphics are poorly supported. Maybe you can get a VIA system with a PCI slot and toss in a $50 nvidia video card? Some Atom boards have issues with PXE boot and/or video that locks up... An Atom based board can only have VGA connectors, no DVI/HDMI (?). Improvements expected with 810?Basically, I've come full circle on this. First I was leaning towards VIA. Then with all the issues with the Chrome drivers I was just waiting for anything better to come out, either better drivers or another small form factor option. Then I got all excited about Atom boards. Now that I've read up on them and seen comparisons with the newer VIA boards I'm back to leaning towards VIA, either with better drivers or even an add-on video card. Will any of these play 1080p in UI2+overlay? The more I read the more confused I get. edit: of course after I post this I see the thread about the ION NetDevice... Didn't realize ION was Atom+nVidia 9400. Not out yet, and looks like it may be much more $$ than current Atom/VIA systems but I guess we will see when it's up for sale on newegg.com etc.
Hi,The Ion product you are talking about is the Acer Aspire Revo which basically goes against the proposition you are putting forward;- Cheaper than existing Atom based and Via hardware designs (under 180UKP including sales tax and shipping here in the UK...and thats a normal retail price)
- Via GPU's are still poorly supported under Linux.
- There are several motherboards with ATI GPU's (ASUS Eee Box B206) and that have HDMI and optical spdif outputs.
So all in all having battled with Via motherboards under LinuxMCE for a very long time I really dont expect to be going back in that direction any time soon ;-)All the bestAndrew
While we're on the topic (more or less) last time I tested it (a few months ago under 0810 alpha1) UI2 masking worked on my VIA machine with the latest graphics drivers (at the time), unfortunately it was unusably slow but still definitely a good step in the right direction. As I didn't spent to much time on it I probably could have done a lot more tweaking too.
skeptic -I'm pretty sceptical of the comments you read about what Intel does and doesn't allow... towards the end of last year there were loads of comments flying around that Intel was refusing to allow nVidia to integrate the Atom into their Atom/9400 ION platform, which was going to kill the new solution they were about to market. Subsequently, both Intel and nVidia said that was nonesense and was never the case. Intel said they don't limit any of their partners from integrating with the Atom in this way. And nVidia is one of Intel's "arch-competitors". Looks like that was just pointless speculation and rumour mill!
Quote from: colinjones on April 16, 2009, 12:17:28 amskeptic -I'm pretty sceptical of the comments you read about what Intel does and doesn't allow... towards the end of last year there were loads of comments flying around that Intel was refusing to allow nVidia to integrate the Atom into their Atom/9400 ION platform, which was going to kill the new solution they were about to market. Subsequently, both Intel and nVidia said that was nonesense and was never the case. Intel said they don't limit any of their partners from integrating with the Atom in this way. And nVidia is one of Intel's "arch-competitors". Looks like that was just pointless speculation and rumour mill!I'm happy to say you appear to be correct. I ran across multiple "sources" including the one I linked to above with supposedly in-the-know information stating Intel would not allow several things. Basically, stating Intel did not want to jeopardize their more expensive cpu sales by allowing the dirt cheap (and much slower) Atom based hardware the functionality needed to eat into the desktop market.But here we have the AspireRevo about to come out with HDMI, up to 4G ram, and what appears to be a pretty good nVidia based gfx chip. All things that were supposedly not allowed.
i did read that one of this units shorfalls is running flash content from the internet, since currently flash does not use the GPU. So sites like youtube and hulu perform terribly.... As far as video goes, all reviews look good so far thats what we all want anyway.
BTW, what all is required for h.264 gpu playback? Does it have to conform to very specific standards or is pretty much any h.264 video ok? I transcode all my DVDs to h.264/ac3/avi format because mkv has a problem with green garbage and this format gives great results on screen and is compatible with my Archos.


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Was The San Bernardino 'Mass Shooting' A Double False Flag Event?
TMR Editor's Note:
When nobody thought it could get any crazier (or more obvious) than the fake Sandy Hook massacre, along comes San Bernardino. It certainly doesn't take a Columbo to realize that the San Bernardino false flag is one screwed up case. Just how complicated and confounding this false flag 'shooting' is can be better comprehended by the many articles posted at the link below.
San Bernardino Mass Shooting and False Flag Operation Articles
The official FBI statements and their unusual posturing from the very beginning have left everyone scratching their heads. Obama's pronouncements and strange responses have been particularly curious and puzzling. While Obama would have been very happy to see the 3 white American militiamen carry out the 'mass execution', he seemed too unhappy that the false flag was ultimately pinned on ISIS sympathizers.
Obama's #1 MISSION: Take Away The Guns
The Millennium Report has been quite busy thinking about the many anomalies and inconsistencies throughout this inscrutable affair with no success in arriving at any reasonable conclusion(s). Then we were sent a highly credible and penetrating analysis by one of our readers.
The following narrative delineating a "false flag within a false flag" makes so much sense it even passes the Occam's Razor test. The armchair analyst who wrote this exposé deserves full credit for their sleuthing and cogent presentation. It's clear that a high-powered intellect and extremely intuitive heart-mind figured this one out, if it is in fact the real plot.
As a prep article for the excellent breakdown of San Bernardino posted below, the following link is offered as it provides both significant context and critical background info.
San Bernardino False Flag Operation Designed To Trigger More Gun Control
The Anonymous Patriots are to be highly commended for their excellent contribution to the understanding of government-sponsored false flag operations.
Caveat: A true American patriot would never kidnap a Muslim couple (ISIS-connected or otherwise) in the way suggested below. Only a faction under the control of the Zionist neocon cabal would conduct such a pre-emptive false flag operation.
San Bernardino: A Double False Flag
Commentary by Anonymous Patriots
The use of false flag events to trigger war or armed aggression has been used throughout all time—from the days of Nero to Sandy Hook. America is no longer just one nation of fifty states; it is two sub-nations fighting a bloody turf war between patriots who believe in the rule of law and Constitution and the globalists and their marionettes who wish to destabilize and turn America into the same no-border, no-culture mess that Europe has become. President Obama seems to be more interested in turning control of America over to international corporations through the TPP and other agreements that are non-constitutional and bent on chaos and the dismantling of constitutional American rights.
Homeland Security (the American SS), which is directly controlled by the Executive Branch is no longer a hidden secret government. It has come out of the shadows and is staging one false flag event after the next against the citizens of the U.S. Homeland Security controls FEMA and the ATF, two agencies that formerly conducted "black ops" activities within America. But on today's geopolitical landscape, the all-out battle between international forces (aka the New World Order) and faithful American Patriots from a variety of law enforcement agencies is in plain view for all to see. Through "federal authority", many patriots believe that every false flag terror event since 911 has been carefully designed, operated, and filmed by what is no less than the "Federal Homeland Security Motion Picture" production company.
The evidence for two recent false flag terror events, Sandy Hook and San Bernardino, is so staggering that the poorly designed and executed plans were either created by idiots or the original plans were "upset" by insiders who commandeered the operation and turned it towards a different outcome.
For instance, at Sandy Hook a "policeman" was apprehended in the forest adjacent to the Sandy Hook school (which according to state educational records had been closed for a year) on the day of the supposed shooting, just before the event. Over fifty vehicles responded to this first call of "the policeman in the woods", even before the Sandy Hook false flag 911 calls were made. This policeman, who surely saw how the event was being staged, was apprehended and released; although, we know nothing more about him. Could this policeman be an example of a new breed of "patriot insiders" (Patriots) who knows about the machinations of false flag terror events staged by our own government in order to terrorize its citizenry?
Do we again see possible evidence for patriot insiders foiling the intent of a government-sponsored false flag event in San Bernardino by creating a second false flag event on the same day that strategically moved the spotlight off of three white assailants who supposedly entered the Inland Regional Center to a husband-wife Muslim couple with a substantiated history of jihadist activity?
By simply opening our eyes to the possibilities of two different false flag events taking place on the same day by two separate groups — one with the agenda of limiting our gun rights (the Obama administration) and the other (Patriots) of indicting Homeland Security and other agencies for reckless immigrant vetting process — all of the strange pieces of information for the day begin to fit together coherently.
The SUV Problem
For instance, there have been nine different photos of the bullet riddled black SUV. Each picture is completely different and is pictured in at least three completely different locations. With the slightest bit of scrutiny, we can see with our own eyes different "scenes" where these pictures were taken.
There were also numerous pictures taken from unusual angles that indicate that the camera person was already staged to take pictures. One scenario reports that the black SUV was surrounded by numerous police cars and that 36 officers fired over 350 rounds into the car, yet not one police car camera caught a single image. Even the two videos from witnesses showing the "slow speed" chase of the SUV and were not from law enforcement. There have been no videos released of any shoot-out(s) of the SUV.
Who took the pictures of the various SUV "end results" of the so-called shoot-out? Especially since the photos have hundreds of incongruencies between them that cannot be rectified. For example:
In the first photos released, two bodies were in street clothes, with no apparent weapons near or on their bodies. Only one victim seemed to have a single bullet wound. Then another picture surfaced where one victim has been handcuffed, but with examination, one can see that it does not correspond to other pictures of the victims. The victims are clearly in two different ground locations.
In one of the first photos of the SUV, it is parked next to a large blue trash can that is in front of a fence the length of an empty lot. (Really? How many readers take their weekly trash can out that far beyond their driveway?) The trash can seems to be a "marker" of sorts for picture staging.
Other photos show the SUV next to a driveway, or a fire hydrant, or next to another gray SUV. In one photo the black SUV seems to have crashed into gray SUV near a street that was close to an overpass, just slightly beyond a street corner. At least three of these locations were separately named, described, and identified by the dispatcher. So, at the very least, there were three different black SUVs that were intercepted and then subsequently "shot-up."
If we just look at the black SUV photos, we can see that in some pictures the hood is up and in others it is down; different windows are shot out; different tires are flat; some pictures have white police cars around them; and others have black police cars or multiple armored vehicles.
By simple examination of the photos, the press is either blind, stupid or happy to release evidence that is completely incoherent, misleading and a clear statement that they are complicit in reporting the story line they are given and not concerned with investigating the truth.
In two other videos of the black SUV, its emergency lights were flashing as it slowly pulled up to what seems to be a designated spot. You can hear the police report on the dispatcher channel that they are in pursuit of an SUV. Whereupon the driver "jumped from the vehicle and ran off." This element was reported for two different SUV's, one was at the scene near the blue trash can and the other was reported to be at an intersection.
In yet another incongruent picture of the SUV, we see a police officer standing near a black SUV that has not been shot up. He is bending over and looking in the front passenger side of the vehicle. He has his hand on his gun but it is not drawn. So clearly he isn't feeling threatened about the situation at hand.
Campaign of Disinformation
Just the examples of the SUV incongruencies show clear evidence of a staged event. But the anomalies seem to be so of control that one wonders what else could have caused the original staged event to get so out of hand that a campaign of disinformation was needed to cover up what really happened.
Is it possible that some of the SUV pictures were taken by the Patriots inside agencies, or acting on their own, to create havoc and deflection from the original false flag event? Or could we be witnessing an inter-agency battle going on within our government for the preservation of our nation? Could one agency, perhaps the Federal Bureau of Investigation, be fully aware of another, perhaps Homeland Security-FEMA-Immigration, that has become an enemy within? And being sworn to protect the nation of internal and external enemies, these unseen Patriots are fighting a war unlike any we have seen before?
Is it possible that loyal Patriots are countering anti-citizen activities that are being conducted by agencies within our own government?
Recently, after the San Bernardino event, a CIA intelligence agent reported that virtually all terrorist false flag events are staged. Another report on the same day stated that an internal battle in the FBI splits the bureau into the 80% that are true patriots and 20% who have sold out to other forces in the government who wish to disarm all Americans.
It seems an unlikely coincidence that Obama's gun control law was being voted on in Congress a day before an emergency drill-false flag operation in San Bernardino was scheduled. Imagine how different the story-line would have been that day if three white males, using automatic and tactical weapons, murdered unsuspecting citizens at a holiday party? Perhaps the administration supported the original false flag event so that anti-gun lobbying would have another "Sandy Hook" to support its efforts for more gun control.
Is it possible that a Patriots saw what was about to happen and turned it into a "double false flag" event that made the poorly organized, inexperienced, Muslim patsies into ISIS operatives? If this were so, these Patriot Americans turned the public tides from hating white gun owners into hating Muslim radicals. It would have only taken one Patriot to have implemented the plan to disrupt the original false flag operation, one Patriot that knew Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik had a sketchy background and could be used in the manner that they were.
False Flag Operation #1:
This one might have been run by government agencies that had an anti-gun agenda. This could be branches directly under White House control such as Homeland Security, CIA (using Israeli, Egyptian or Saudi agents), Department of Immigration, FEMA, ATF or other Federal agencies. The mission was to stage a false flag terror shooting (with concurrent drills in the area) a day before Obama and progressive lobbyists were trying to influence Congressional votes.
We have seen three witnesses report three white gunman with assault rifles entering the Inland Regional Center. Some witnesses even reported that they thought it was just one of the routine drills that had been taking place at Inland Regional. Still pending is whether any actual deaths or injuries occurred since there haven't been any reliable news reports. We haven't seen any coroner reports. And we have already seen numerous false reports which name so-called deceased as people who did not work for the Health Department that was sponsoring the employee event.
It was important that the gunmen be noticed as "white" because later, the anti-gun government proponents would suggest that good-old-boy, white male militia-types, were involved and Americans just aren't safe. Thus, we need gun control as only the government can protect you!
Of course, they will never "find" the three white gunman because they were part of the staged event and after the total screw up of the events that day, they would be wise to remain in hiding. We hear from all of the witnesses outside of the building that the "three white men" did not even bother to wear masks.
At the very least, we need to demand verifiable death certificates issued by the coroner's office. At Sandy Hook, there were never any death certificates issued and a state law was enacted to prevent anyone from making a Freedom of Information Act requesting death certificates of murder victims.
The many, many details that are incongruent in this event are explained once we see that there were two false flag activities in play that day.
False Flag Operation #2:
This one was run by true Patriots within the FBI or other agencies that could eventually control the investigative aspects of the day's events—both false flags. The Patriots knew that false flag #1 was going to happen so false flag #2 was devised to upstage the attempt for the gun control agenda and place on the failures of the American immigration system.
On several occasions, we hear FBI Director James Comey indicate that immigrants/refugees are not properly screened and that the FBI does not have enough resources to monitor terrorists within the U.S. And why is it, by the way, that Congress keeps cutting the FBI funding? Without adequate funding how can the FBI monitor all of the poorly-screened refugees and immigrants pouring into our country?
The Patriots know the jihadist history of Farook and Malik. Clearly there is plenty of evidence that shows they had connections to terrorism and were being monitored by the FBI to some degree. So this Muslim couple is set up as patsies, who are guilty by association and perhaps related deeds, to take the fall for being the murderers.
As soon as false flag #1 goes into play, the Patriots go to Farook's house and put the husband and wife in handcuffs in the SUV along with weapons, bombs, and all the evidence needed to convince everyone they were the killers. Malik's supposed Facebook message about her new commitment to ISIS may have been done by her under force or by the person who came to her home. This message, sent during the time of the attack on the Christmas party supposedly confirms her current activity with a terrorist operation.
Once the Patriot has the couple in the vehicle he drives around until the police "see the vehicle driving slowly by Farook's apartment." Then, the SUV driver drives slowly for two miles, with the emergency lights flashing, back towards the crime scene at the Inland Regional Center. At a designated spot, the SUV stops and the Patriot (who is the driver) gets out of the vehicle, shoots into the air, and runs away, never to be pursued or caught. Supposedly at this point, the "terrorists", who are handcuffed, shoot at the police. Law enforcement (36 police), believing the SUV to contain the shooters from false flag #1, open fire on the SUV. However, it is really not possible to tell whether the Muslim couple were shot in the SUV by police or ahead of time by someone else. The many and various pictures of the shoot-out scene were possibly staged before false flag #2 went into play.
The Farook Home Crime Scene
Another seemingly gross error concerning the case is the "crime scene" at the couple's house (also called apartment by some accounts). The house was left unsecured after the FBI "investigated" the scene. Perhaps it was left unsecured because the false flag #2 planners within the FBU knew it was not a crime scene. It was a decoy so that media would find a list of so-called "taken items" from the FBI investigation. No one will ever know if these items were ever found in the Farook house.
Now that the crime scene has been riffled through by man and dog, it is tainted and can never be used for trial purposes. This, along with the slaying of Farook and Malik, leaves the entire matter without witnesses or evidence and makes the case essentially closed.
In the meantime:
Anti-gun government operatives can't really tell the truth because they were staging false flag #1 for their anti-gun agenda and the "survivors" that were interviewed at the Inland Regional Center were crisis actors. Of course the president won't be attending these funerals or acknowledging those who died because he knows that no one died in San Bernardino, just like at Sandy Hook.
Is this what Jade Helm was really about? It is logo says it all: "Controlling the human domain". Are other Jade Helm and anti-citizen agencies ready to launch other false flags against us? Perhaps to create civil unrest, leading to martial law, and possibly a suspension of the presidential elections? If so, the evidence will make itself known to all of us over the next year.
Did you notice the United Nations markings on Jade Helm military trucks and vehicles this summer as they were crossing America? And, by the way, has anybody seen these vehicles go in the opposite direction since the Jade Helm exercise was supposedly over on September 15, 2015?
Final Word
Listen carefully to FBI Director James Comey and the other FBI spokespeople. They clearly say that this was an act of terrorism. But they don't say it was "Muslim" or "ISIS" terrorism. Perhaps it is an insidious terrorism of the worst kind—our government terrorizing its own citizens through false flag events that are staged to coerce Americans to give up their guns, their liberty, and way of life to the globalists.
If any of this "false flag within a false flag" hypothetical argument is true, then God bless the Patriots that are working within our government to protect our country.
Originally published at: http://themillenniumreport.com/2015/12/was-the-san-bernardino-mass-shooting-a-false-flag-within-a-false-flag/


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A local councillor has been issued a warning by police and suspended from the Labour Party after branding a fellow councillor a "shirt lifting gender bender".
District councillor Mike Harrison made the comment on his Facebook page, amid an ongoing row over the council's decision to declare its support the government's proposals for same-sex marriage.
Independent councillor Ian Driver, who was the target of the abuse, said that if Harrison had "any honour" he would quit the council.
"There is no place in this council for misogyny and homophobia and he is not wanted," he said.
Harrison told the Thanet Gazette on Friday: "I probably did say them things and somebody deleted it, that is why I thought I was hacked, but as far as I am concerned I have not been found guilty of anything."
Cllr Clive Hart, the Labour Group Leader on the council, said on Wednesday that Harrison would be suspended from the party.
"Following a thorough internal investigation of recent events leading to him receiving a letter of advice from the police, Cllr Mike Harrison has been suspended from Thanet Labour Group for one calendar month," he said.
The incident comes just days after another member of Thanet council, Tory Ken Gregory, was cautioned by police after leaving a message on a bisexual member of the council's answer phone saying: "With a bit of luck you'll get Aids".
Gregory was subsequently suspended from the Conservative Party for his comments.
In April the local MP, Conservative Roger Gale, caused controversy when he described the government's plans to introduce gay marriage as "almost Stalinist in its political correctness".
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"The overwhelming proportion of archaeologists would regard the evidence for eastern origins of the Etruscans as negligible," said Anthony Tuck, an archaeologist at the University of Massachusetts Center for Etruscan Studies.
Because Italians take pride in the Roman empire and the Etruscan state that preceded it, asserting a foreign origin for the Etruscans has long been politically controversial in Italy. Massimo Pallottino, the dean of modern Etruscan studies in Italy who died in 1995, held that because no one questioned that the French, say, developed in France, the same assumption should be made about the Etruscans. "Someone who had a different position didn't get a job in archaeology," said Antonio Torroni, a geneticist at the University of Pavia.
In Tuscany as a whole, part of the ancient Etruscan region of Etruria, the Torroni team found 11 minor mitochondrial DNA lineages that occur nowhere else in Europe and are shared only with Near Eastern people. These findings, the teams says, "support a direct and rather recent genetic input from the Near East, a scenario in agreement with the Lydian origin of the Etruscans."
Dr. Torroni said he had data awaiting publication that are based on Y chromosomes and point to the same conclusion.
April 04, 2007
Nicholas Wade on Etruscan Origins
Nicholas Wade has an article in the New York Times summarizing the recent research ib Etruscan origins (click on the label below for more) and giving some interesting background on the dispute between 'indigenist' and 'migrationist' views of Etruscan origins:
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Cage the Elephant Get Animated in 'Come a Little Closer' Video
Cage the Elephant have unveiled their new animated video for 'Come a Little Closer,' and it's a little trippy!
Showing off their creativity, the animated video for 'Come a Little Closer' opens with the band transported to a kaleidoscopic, mythical world largely created by the imagination of frontman Matt Shultz.
Shultz shared his original illustrations for the project, allowing them to come to life throughout the video. Check it out above to be transported into the colorful mind of Shultz as he and his bandmates planet hop through the universe, ward off beasts and do their best to survive as the song rings out around them.
Serving as the latest single from their latest album 'Melophobia,' 'Come a Little Closer' has been gaining momentum on the charts since its release in August, ultimately landing at No. 1 on the Alternative Radio Chart earlier this week.
Cage the Elephant will spend the rest of 2013 performing at various radio festivals throughout the U.S. before they head overseas to kick off their European tour in February.


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A.cut the stems short , remove all extra foliage,and place the blooms in a low container .
B. stick to a basically monochromatic color scheme.
C. Use loose, puffy,large-headed flowers such as peonies, hydrangeas, old fashioned roses, or even carnations.
Shutter Beach Style Martha Stewart
This year in addition to my natural bouquets I decided to try my hand at making some paper flowers. These flowers seem to be all over the design, decorating and scrabooking sites and they look like a fun and easy activity to do with kids. I followed this tutorial from Jones Design Company with some really nice results.
Jones Design Company
scrapbooking or copier paper
florist wire or pipe cleaners
scissors, pencil, low temp glue gun
How to do it:
1. Cut a out an 8" or smaller wavy circle from your paper (I used an assortment of papers from the Hanukkah and Rosh Hashanah lines)
2. Cut a spiral in the circle.
3. Starting with the outer loose end roll the spiral into a tight coil. It should begin to look lie a rosette.
4. Release the coil and fluff a bit then hot glue the coil to the center of the spiral. Press down to adhere.
5. Glue a wire stem or pipe cleaner to the bottom of the flower. Cut out a leaf shape from green paper pinch and glue to over the stem at base of flower.
Variation: Flower place cards and/or napkin rings
Instead of gluing a stem onto the flower adhere a ribbon to the base to be tied around the napkin. Or, stamp or write your guests name on the leaf and then adhere to the base of the flower for a simple and pretty place card.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. How do you decorate for Shavuot? Will you be celebrating with friend and family? Check this site out for more info about the holiday and some great recipes.


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10-Sep-2011 -- Having been stationed in Chinchilla for work, I decided to take advantage of the fact that I was now closer to the Outback than usual and would not have to drive a huge way into the middle of nowhere to knock off a confluence point or two.
I picked the closest un-visited point and did a bit of research on Google maps. It quickly became apparent that this was not going to be an easy one. It is 80km off the highway, more than 20km from what could be assumed to be a semi-decent road and near what looked like an un-driveable forest track. I selected what appeared to be the closest vehicle access route and programmed it into my GPS.
The day before my planned visit I prepared by purchasing a shovel, a pair of pliers, enough food for 3+ days and 20 litres of water. I set off from Chinchilla at around 06:15 heading West along the Warrego highway travelling for around 500km. Turning down Khyber Road I was pleasantly surprised to find what I thought was going to be a "semi-decent" road was in fact sealed for the first 10km, and the remaining 70km section was unsealed but graded and in pristine condition and at a width that would have easily accommodated 4 lanes. But this is where the pleasantries quickly faded.
Turning down the Google map selected path I soon realised this was no more than a farmers trail for checking his fencing. Not wanting to give up after having travelled close to 600km and being within 15km of the point I followed the farmers fencing, passing through gates where it would lead me closer to the point (responsibly closing them behind me if they were closed) and finally reaching forest with no possible way of getting a vehicle through.
Being within 6km of the point I packed water and a bit of food and trekked through the forest and waist high grass for 2 km until finally reaching an area recently cleared of shrubbery. The point was then a further 4km into the area inconveniently located in a ditch obstructed by felled pine trees. Taking the required photos I hiked back to the car, back-tracked through the farmers paddocks and finally driving back to Chinchilla making this a 1200km, 18 hour single day trip.


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When I discovered a book review last week about "The Searchers: The Making of An American Legend" by Glenn Frankel, I was already ordering it before I read whether the reviewer thought it was good or not.
My motivation wasn't just my unconditional adoration of John Ford's 1956 masterpiece, starring John Wayne. It was also because I was hoping for an answer or at least insight into Ford's decision as to why he filmed the climactic scene where Wayne's Ethan Edwards finally catches up to Natalie Wood's Debbie at Bronson Canyon here in Hollywood.
In the film Debbie flees across the barren plains of Monument Valley with Ethan in hot pursuit on horseback. But instead of reuniting them there, Ford quick-cuts to Debbie running up to the mouth of the Bronson Canyon cave/tunnel. Wayne comes charging down the adjacent slope, dismounts and approaches his long-lost niece, undecided still as to whether he's going to save her because she's kin or let his hatred of Indians take over and kill her because she's long assimilated into the native culture she was abducted into as a child.
As a local who's haunted them thar Hollywood Hills since I was a kid, I've known about Bronson Canyon since I was in elementary school, and I can remember watching "The Searchers" for the umpteenth time about 10 years ago and finally recognizing it. And yes, during visits since, I've gone to the mouth of that cave entrance in full-on fanboy awe knowing that I was standing in the exact spots where The Duke and Ford themselves had stood. One time, while overhearing a trio of visitors talking about the place's use in lesser vehicles such as "Batman" (the '60s TV series), "Star Trek VI," and "Army of Darkness.," I shared what I knew with them. Sadly, my enthusiastic description of the scene (complete with where Ford set up the camera) was lost because none of the three had seen the classic (which I feel should be a crime against entertainment).
I hold the film dearer to my heart knowing part of it was filmed in what is basically the playground of my past and so readily accessible at present. But with so much of the film's exteriors shot in and around the organic magnificence of Monument Valley (itself a star of the film), I've long wondered what happened to bring Ford and Wayne and Wood to film that pivotal scene back here in Hollywood at what is in essence so fake a location entirely incongruous to the established wide-open scope of the West's great outdoors. As such, I couldn't resist diving into the back of the book to see if it was there. Thanks to Frankel, I now have the answer and so much more.
From the book:
Four days later, Ford took John Wayne, Natalie Wood, and a camera crew to Bronson Canyon to shoot the film's climactic scene in which Ethan finally hunts down Debbie. The canyon was one of Hollywood's classic outdoor locations, a former quarry carved into the southwest corner of Griffith Park just a few miles east of the Culver City studio. Brown and barren, it readily stood in for the rocky terrain of the West. From "Riders of the Purple Sage" (1925) to "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" (1932) to "Zorro Rides Again" (1937), anyone who needed a cheap natural location within a bus ride from a studio had resorted to Bronson Canyon over the years. Ford didn't go there save money, however, but to solve a problem. As usual, he left no notes to explain. But it's likely Ford and his crew had filmed the climactic scene in Monument Valley in July according to the [Frank] Nugent screenplay and that Ford had decided at the last minute to change it.
Nugent's original script spells out exactly what is supposed to happen and why:
Ethan Dismounts with his gun drawn, pointing it at Debbie. "I'm sorry, girl," he tells her. "Shut your eyes."
The camera holds on Debbie's face — the eyes gaze fearlessly, innocently into Ethan'. After a moment, he lowers his gun and puts it away. "You sure do favor your moth," he tells her. Then he extends his hand, puts his arm protectively around her and a reconciled uncle and niece head for home.
Somewhere between the original filming of the scene and August 12, Ford decided to reach for a different ending. He clearly wanted something more visual and ambiguous — something the audience could see and feel and not have explained to them. "I wonder, did they box themselves into a corner and find themselves having to shoot this at the very end?" asked Ford scholar James D'Arc. "Bronson Canyon's the obvious quickie solution."
As he did so many times, Ford threw away Nugent's dialogue and improvised. The face that he would be jump-cutting from the flat parched floor of Monument Valley to the hilly rock-strewn path leading to Bronson Canyon did not seem to trouble him. In the filmed version, Ethan chases Debbie down, calling out her name — similar to the way he had called out Martha's name earlier in the film when he searched for her among the flaming ruins of the ranch house. Desperate to escape him, Debbie reaches the mouth of the cave and then collapses. Ethan dismounts, stands over her, then lifts her over his head in one sweeping motion and takers her in his amrs. "Let's go home, Debbie," is all he says.
For Ford and his crew, it was a quick visit. They started shooting at Bronson Canyon at 11:00 that morning and finished up at 12:45. They broke a half hour for lunch and then headed back to the studio.
Damn. I've long been a searcher for that information. I can't wait to start at the beginning of Frankel's book and see what else he has to show me about one of the greatest motion pictures ever made.


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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance sees the cybernetically enhanced Raiden severing his ties to the stealthy gameplay of old, charging headlong behind enemy lines with a fresh pack of batteries and a thirsty blade by his side. His newfound lust for battle fits nicely into the quirky Metal Gear universe, thanks to the persistence of the Sons of the Patriots plotline and other carefully laid traces of time-honored traditions. Still, despite these ties to the past, Revengeance is ultimately a departure from the old way of doing things. Almost every scenario demands conflict rather than silent infiltration, and instead of conforming to his environment, Raiden can transform it in a matter of seconds.
Four years after the conclusion of Metal Gear Solid 4, Raiden's cyborg strength is under the employ of a private security firm hired to protect a peaceful and influential African prime minister. His convoy is intercepted by two cyborgs representing the disruptive Desperado Enforcement, and they quickly make a mess of things by kidnapping their target, disabling Raiden, and slipping away unharmed. Not one to stand idly by, Raiden pursues his assailants after receiving the latest cybernetic upgrades from his comrades at Maverick Consulting.
It's a brief yet satisfying ride through a fast-paced action game, and dozens of unlockable rewards continually entice you back into the fray. Though Revengeance has addictive combat and a killer sense of style, it's unfortunate that the simplicity of its underlying story fails to hit many high marks. Outside of a few memorable antagonists (Sam, for instance, is a sadistic delight), you won't walk away with fond memories of the overall plot, but Raiden's personal transformation reaches an atypical and invigorating conclusion. He's perfect for the role of the antihero, and through his transformation, Revengeance emerges as a fantastic action game set in the Metal Gear universe.
Raiden faces hundreds of cyborg soldiers and biomechanical contraptions while searching for the Desperado elites, and despite a mostly mundane selection of environments, the excitement of taking on sword-wielding, rocket-launching foot soldiers holds your attention from the very start. Enemies don't waste time during battle, and though Raiden is no slouch, it will take considerable practice to completely realize the potential of his various attacks. He's fully capable of bolting through a crowd without taking a scratch, but he's bound to falter in the hands of a novice. Yet regardless of your initial skill level, Revengeance is an accessible action game that emphasizes entertainment without overshadowing the importance of depth and nuance.
Beyond the flow of combos and timely parries, Raiden can enter a heightened state of awareness known as blade mode by siphoning electrolytes from his enemies. You can choreograph precise slices that tear through weakened objects and enemies with as much accuracy or desperation as you desire. Tapping light and heavy attack buttons unleashes a flurry of horizontal and vertical slices, with the right analog stick dictating controlled cuts along a projected vector.
Hitting an enemy's sweet spot, indicated by a pink icon, initiates Raiden's Zandatsu technique. Reaching into his opponent's torso, he tears out the spine-like repair unit, crushing it in the palm of his hand with a push of a button. It not only replenishes his health and electrolyte reserves, but it pronounces his deep-seated ferocity.
Performing the Zandatsu doesn't require a lot of effort on your part, but if your initial trajectory isn't quite on point, small adjustments with the left analog stick may be required. It's usually a simple procedure, but some boss battles require you to find the right pitch and angle under considerable pressure, and it can be a bit of a headache, and frankly a bore, to attempt these same sequences over and over again if you should fail. Such precise demands slow down the pace of combat, one of the game's strongest characteristics.
The merits of speed wouldn't shine if it weren't for the game's consistent frame rate. Outside of loading sequence stutters, Revengeance almost never skips a beat. Deforming models in direct relation to your strikes calls for heavy calculations on the fly, and it's nothing short of a technical marvel that the game's high frame rate doesn't choke in the process. Raiden can capably whittle his way through most objects, from chain-link fences to armored plated tanks, but your happy-go-lucky slicing eventually collides with the cold reality that not everything is destructible. You can thank Revengeance's linear design for these boundaries, but the limitations are only a minor distraction from the enjoyment of decimating foe and prop alike.
Precisely controlling Raiden's katana plays an important role when attempting to remove individual limbs, an optional yet rewarding tactic. Reducing your enemies to limbless worms renders them disabled, potentially allowing for a no-kill playthrough (with a few scripted exceptions). More importantly, 30 specific enemies possess valuable stores of data in their left hands. For every 10 of these hands that you acquire, a powerful new upgrade appears in Raiden's customization menu. It's a task easier said than done; weakening and cutting off a specific limb from a specific enemy can be frustrating when you're surrounded by a half dozen others. You may find yourself resetting to the last checkpoint in order to take another crack at the challenge, but the payoff is worth it in the end.
Your accuracy and timing in blade mode are somewhat dependent on the camera's position, and though you can usually rely on it to serve your needs, it occasionally misses a step and loses track of the action. For example, locking onto enemies in a cramped environment doesn't always produce the best results, and the same can be said for the one rare Zandatsu out of a hundred when the camera abandons all logic and orientation. It's frustrating when it occurs, but it doesn't represent the camera's overall positive qualities. Given that Raiden is invulnerable during these animations, it's worth having complex shows of technique in spite of the rare temporary defect.
Raiden performs these brutal acts in the name of justice, while his enemies simply lust for war and profit. The intriguing twists that made other Metal Gear plots increasingly interesting are almost nowhere to be found, but Raiden's personal transformation manages to keep the ship afloat amid the sea of narrative mediocrity. Outside of providing for his family, he views his violent line of work as a means to protect the weak, but in a world where absolutes are a myth, there may be more to his motivations than even he realizes. His opponents repeatedly challenge the notion that justice is his sole desire, questioning whether his stated motives are nothing more than controlled excuses to commit violence. Could it be that he's unwittingly perpetuating the lessons he learned as a child soldier under the guise of justice?
This is the biggest question Raiden must answer throughout the course of Revengeance. During the best moments, his internal struggle is matched in tone and pace by the gameplay to great effect. With his confidence shot, he's like an injured animal struggling to find a foothold. Conversely, when his violent tendencies emerge, his tone shifts and the game thrusts you into visceral moments filled with rage, torment, and unrestrained dismemberment. His satisfaction with committing such brutal acts stands out, and the moment he wrenches the repair unit from his foes, he turns into a seething, bloodthirsty predator. It feels natural to share in his pleasure of putting the exclamation point at the end of a hard-fought battle.
Your battles against the heavyweights, the four members of the Winds of Destruction, take place in large outdoor arenas. On the normal difficulty setting, these face-offs are fairly easy to navigate on your initial attempt, but they're entertaining diversions nonetheless. Each boss battle concludes with a mix of cutscenes and quick-time events, ultimately throwing Raiden into blade mode to deliver the final blow. These moments of excess occasionally elevate the thrill of victory, but they usually diminish the sense of accomplishment by serving the boss to Raiden on a silver platter.
The best face-off occurs between Raiden and his rival the Brazilian cyborg samurai Samuel "Jetstream" Rodrigues. It's this relatively simple clash of swords that culminates in the most straightforward yet rewarding conflict in the entire game, and despite Sam being a rather unexciting rival, he manages to leave a lasting impact on Raiden's psyche.
Trademark elements of the Metal Gear Solid series survive Revengeance's otherwise revolutionary transformation. Even the stealth meter managed to sneak its way into the game, and while it may not carry as much weight as it once did, it allows Raiden to silently dispatch unaware enemies. You can still kill time perfecting your skills in VR missions, or if you prefer, by engaging your Maverick cohorts in sprawling codec conversations that take entertaining turns into unsuspected directions. They're examples of the palpable Metal Gear spirit that permeates an otherwise unconventional entry in the legendary stealth series.
Revengeance may not play like a typical Metal Gear game, but Raiden's character arc justifies almost every change to the old formula. It's a beneficial dynamic, and the game's biggest success overall. It ultimately tests the hypothesis that there's more to the series than just Snakes and sneaking behind enemy lines, and for the most part, it passes the test. The story may not wow you with its political trappings, but Raiden's transformation and the gameplay that springs from it are the most alluring reasons to give him another shot as the leading man. If you're even vaguely interested in the Metal Gear series or intelligent hack-and-slash games, do not pass up a chance to play this exciting and addictive hybrid.


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The Devil's Backbone
2001 Drama | Suspense/Thriller | SciFi/Fantasy | HorrorThe mournful fable of the Santa Lucia School during the last days of the Spanish Civil War. An imposing stone building set on a desolate plateau, the school shelters the orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and other abandoned children. Upon his arrival at Santa Lucia, 10-year-old Carlos is confronted with the hostility of Jaime, the oldest of the children. Besides aged professor Casares, the adult personnel of the school includes Carmen, the steely headmistress; Alma, another teacher; Conchita, the cook; and the young caretaker Jacinto. Aggressive and greedy, Jacinto is filled with hatred for the school that houses him and the teachers that raised him. Gradually, Carlos uncovers the dark ties that bind the inhabitants of the school, including the secret that haunts them--Santi, a student who was brutally murdered, and whose pale ghost now wanders the grounds. Who killed Santi on the night when a bomb fell in the center of the courtyard, miraculously without exploding?


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When you think of Robert Mapplethorpe, you probably imagine black-and-white photographs of muscular nudes, X-rated portraits, and complicated S&M contraptions. And you'd be pretty spot-on. But there's a lot more to him that that.
The photographer's archive, which consists of more than 2,000 prints and several documents, was recently acquired by two L.A. museums: the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Highlights are now on view at the two institutions for the first time. This will serve as the basis for a more ambitious exhibition—a kind of Mapplethorpe 2.0—which is currently set for 2016. One aim of the acquisition, curators say, will be to make California the hub of scholarship on the artist.
LACMA shows three of the photographer's early portfolios, XYZ. (X consists of several X-rated images and self-portraits; Y, the floral pictures; and Z, images of black males.) The small, high-contrast photographs are organized in three vertical rows—how Mapplethorpe originally preferred they be displayed. "Seeing them together proves Mapplethorpe's point: he always said that he approached every subject the same, whether it was a sex picture, a flower picture, or a portrait," says Britt Salvesen, curator and department head of LACMA's Wallis Annenberg Photography Department. The Getty exhibition, on the other hand, offers a sampling of Mapplethorpe's work, (and fittingly emphasizes many of his classical nudes). There are several mixed-media objects, Polaroid prints, still lifes, and portraits—all organized chronologically, to illustrate the way the photographer's work evolved over time.
When a Mapplethorpe show comes to Los Angeles, it's hard not to think about his photographic legacy and the crop of others he influenced: Bruce Weber with his portrayal of carefree youth, Herb Ritts with his glossy black-and-white images of the heroic human body. Even Hedi Slimane, the talented photographer-cum-creative director of Yves Saint Laurent, has successfully marketed a combination of "fashion=music+youth+sex" inspired heavily by Mapplethorpe's aesthetic. "He broke the model and enabled people to pursue certain types of work as artistic expressions that were beyond the pale," said Paul Martineau, the Getty's photography curator.
An important part of the artist's story is told through the evolving cultural response to his work. Shortly after he died of AIDS in 1989, a traveling retrospective of his photographs landed at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. The public was outraged by his sexually explicit images, and a culture war ensued. Eventually, the director of the gallery was taken to trial. (Coincidentally, a curator at the Getty and the then-director of LACMA were among the witnesses called in his defense; he was eventually acquitted.)
Mapplethorpe's work served as a documentation of what it meant to be young and gay in the 1980s. At the time, they were symbols of a controversial lifestyle. As writer Edmund White described him, Mapplethorpe was a man who "has always, thank the gods, been shockingly irresponsible about his work." But now, his photographs have become something entirely different. "Controversy was part of the discussion about Mapplethorpe for such a long time that it really wasn't possible to assess the work for its artistic merits," says Salvesen. She attributes this to a larger cultural shift—the accepting of homosexuality, and the greater pervasiveness of sexually explicit imagery online. By 2012, she says, "We have seen an evolution and a greater openness and a willingness to see these as artistic expressions."


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Terence McArdle (c) 2014, The Washington Post.
Phil Everly, who died Jan. 3, and his older brother, Don, used their harmonies to capture the sorrows and drama of adolescence for a generation. In doing so, the duo known as the Everly Brothers paved the way for the Beatles, the Byrds, the Hollies, and Simon and Garfunkel.
While it is sometimes argued that much early rock and roll — particularly the music of Elvis Presley and Bill Haley — was simply watered down rhythm and blues, the music of the Everly Brothers stands as a rebuttal to this claim.
The two could — and did — cover songs by Little Richard and Ray Charles with authority, but their roots were in a long tradition of country-music fraternal duos that included the Delmore Brothers, the Louvin Brothers and the Blue Sky Boys. When brothers harmonize, their genetically matched voices often produce a distinctive, ethereal sound, and the Everlys exemplified that.
In their case, though, the sound was rendered almost spooky by the fact that Don, the baritone, and Phil, the tenor, hardly ever sang more than a third apart. Listen to an Everlys song such as "When Will I Be Loved." Hum Phil's part, then hum Don's part. Either vocal part can stand alone as a melody. But taken together, the two melodies, rendered by two nearly identical voices, formed what Graham Nash of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash called a "ghost harmonic."
Phil and Don turned professional before their teens while working with their father, the country guitarist Ike Everly, on radio in Shenandoah, Iowa. In 1956, they recorded a country record that went nowhere. Their success came a year later when they applied their old-fashioned "hillbilly" harmonies to pop music with "Bye Bye Love," the first in a long series of songs written for them by Nashville tunesmiths Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.
The Bryants' songs chronicled teenage angst without trivializing it. Each song had a specific scenario that teens could relate to. A young couple fears the girl's parents, who are waiting up for her in "Wake Up Little Susie." The class clown makes a play for his best friend's girl in "Bird Dog." And the slow ballad "All I Have to Do Is Dream" distilled the fantasy and longing behind every high school crush.
The brothers were themselves prolific songwriters, Phil most notably with "When Will I Be Loved," later covered in a slick but less soulful fashion by Linda Ronstadt, and Don with "('Til) I Kissed You." The last had the memorable hook of a snare drum imitating a rapid heartbeat.
Perhaps the brothers' closest kindred spirit was Buddy Holly, the bespectacled Texan with whom they toured in 1957 and 1958. Holly also had sung in a close-harmony hillbilly music duo with Bob Montgomery before he plunged into a rock-and-roll solo career.
The Everlys and Holly shared ideas about songwriting, and Holly pitched several songs to the brothers. Phil served as a pallbearer at Holly's funeral in 1959. On a BBC show from 1961, Holly's original rhythm section, the Crickets, appear as the Everly Brothers' back-up band.
Simon and Garfunkel first recorded in 1957 as Tom and Jerry, in direct imitation of the Everly Brothers, and later covered "Bye Bye Love" on their 1970 album,"Bridge Over Troubled Water."
The Everlys' influence crossed the Atlantic and can be heard on the Beatles' very first single, "Love Me Do." Like Phil and Don, Paul McCartney and George Harrison often sang into the same microphone with their instruments pressed forward. Although the Beatles never covered an Everly Brothers number as part of their official studio recordings, they performed a 1960 Everlys song, "So How Come (No One Loves Me)," written by the Bryants, on the BBC. As if the Beatles were proving the extent of their fandom, the song was an album track, but not a hit single, for the Everlys.
For nearly four decades, the two brothers knew no life beyond touring together, a fact that only magnified the normal rivalries and resentments of siblings. Phil, the less gregarious of the two, first joined his family on stage at age 5. They endured long periods where they sang together but wouldn't talk to each other. It all came to a head during a 1973 concert when Phil threw his guitar down and told the stunned audience that they were finished as a group.
In the decade that followed, both Phil and Don pursued solo projects. Phil stayed busy as a harmony singer, recording behind Emmylou Harris and J.D. Souther.
However, in 1983, the two reunited for a recorded concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. Perhaps music and time both served to heal old wounds. A tour followed and they recorded two albums, "EB 84" and "Born Yesterday," for producer and longtime Everlys admirer Dave Edmunds.
"Born Yesterday," the title song written by Phil, captured divorce and middle-age disappointment with as much insight as their earlier songs captured adolescence:
He lost his mind today
She threw his clothes away
The love they thought would last
Just flew away
And perhaps to show how things go in circles, the Everly Brothers opened for Simon and Garfunkel in 2003, a reunion tour for both groups.
"It's amazing, because they hadn't seen each other in about three years," Paul Simon told Rolling Stone. "They met in the parking lot before the first gig.
"They unpacked their guitars — those famous black guitars — and they opened their mouths and started to sing," he said.
"And after all these years, it was still that sound I fell in love with as a kid. It was still perfect."


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A top U.S. intelligence official says Iran would respond if attacked for its nuclear activities, but is unlikely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict.
That assessment comes from the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess. He told a Senate hearing Thursday that if Iran is attacked, it could respond by actions including shutting a vital shipping lane.
"Iran can close the Straits of Hormuz at least temporarily, and may launch missiles against United States forces and our allies in the region if it is attacked. Iran could also attempt to employ terrorist surrogates worldwide," said Burgess. "However, the agency assesses Iran is unlikely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict."
Burgess and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper both told the hearing it is believed that Israel has not made a decision to attack Iran.
A number of nations believe Iran is using its civilian nuclear program as a cover for developing nuclear weapons. Israeli leaders have warned repeatedly that Iran must be prevented from acquiring a nuclear bomb.
In Tokyo Thursday, Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak called for increased sanctions on Iran. Barak said that while current sanctions are affecting Iranian officials, more action is necessary.
"I think that the sanctions should be ratcheted up and made even more urgent," said Barak. "I think that for the first time we see certain signs of impact of these sanctions, but they might not suffice to compel the Iranian leadership to take decisions. So we feel that there is still a need for more effective and paralyzing sanctions on Iran."
The United States on Wednesday downplayed Iran's new claims of advances in its nuclear program, saying Tehran wants to distract from its growing diplomatic isolation.
Iran said it had installed a new generation of centrifuges to enrich uranium, and for the first time loaded domestically produced nuclear fuel into Tehran's research reactor.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland dismissed the announcements.
"We frankly don't see a lot new here,"said Nuland. "This is not big news. It seems to have been hyped. The Iranians have, for many months, been putting out calendars of accomplishments, and based on their own calendars, they are many, many months behind. This strikes us as calibrated mostly for a domestic audience."
Nuland says Iran must show its nuclear program is for civilian purposes.
"They still need to demonstrate to all of us, including taking advantage of the IAEA inspection team now, that this is a purely peaceful program as they claim," she said.
Iran hailed the advances as a step toward mastering the complete nuclear fuel cycle, despite U.N. and Western sanctions aimed at stopping the process. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Iran is making "defiant" statements because its leadership and economy are under "enormous pressure" from sanctions.
The European Union said Wednesday it received a formal Iranian reply to a letter sent almost four months ago offering Iran a resumption of nuclear talks with the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany - a group known as P5+1. The Iranians said they are ready for "dialogue" and "cooperation."
The parties last met in Istanbul a year ago but made no progress.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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"For his outstanding efforts in helping to restore evolution and cosmology to their proper place in the K-12 scientific curriculum. As both a distinguished cosmologist and respected member of the clergy, he played a key role in helping the people of Kansas reverse their State Board of Education's anti-science action."
Background:Adrian Melott is currently Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas. He received an M.Div. from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, CA in 1971 and was for 7 years minister in a Unitarian Universalist church. He received his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Texas in 1981, and has pursued research in physics at the Universities of Chicago, Oxford, UC Santa Barbara, Moscow, and Cambridge. His research emphasis is the use of supercomputers to do massive simulations of the formation of structure in the Universe. Recently, he has become interested in uncovering correlations between the properties of objects on supercluster scales--separated by up to 100 million light years. In 1996 he was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society "For groundbreaking studies of the origin and evolution of cosmic structure." He is a founding Board member of Kansas Citizens for Science, and in 2001 received the Steeples Award from the University of Kansas for his public outreach activities in science. He recently co-authored a Sunday school curriculum "Celebrating Our Origins in the Universe", which introduces the ideas of the Big Bang and the evolution of life to elementary school age children.
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Jan 20, 2013 | |
Developing microbial cell factories by employing synthetic small regulatory RNAs |
(Nanowerk News) Biotechnologists have been working hard to address the climate change and limited fossil resource issues through the development of sustainable processes for the production of chemicals, fuels and materials from renewable non-food biomass. One promising sustainable technology is the use of microbial cell factories for the efficient production of desired chemicals and materials. When microorganisms are isolated from nature, the performance in producing our desired product is rather poor. Metabolic engineering is performed to improve the metabolic and cellular characteristics to achieve enhanced production of desired product at high yield and productivity. Since the performance of microbial cell factory is very important in lowering the overall production cost of the bioprocess, many different strategies and tools have been developed for the metabolic engineering of microorganisms. | |
One of the big challenges in metabolic engineering is to find the best platform organism and to find those genes to be engineered so as to maximize the production efficiency of the desired chemical. Even Escherichia coli, the most widely utilized simple microorganism, has thousands of genes, the expression of which is highly regulated and interconnected to finely control cellular and metabolic activities. Thus, the complexity of cellular genetic interactions is beyond our intuition and thus it is very difficult to find effective target genes to engineer. Together with gene amplification strategy, gene knockout strategy has been an essential tool in metabolic engineering to redirect the pathway fluxes toward our desired product formation. However, experiment to engineer many genes can be rather difficult due to the time and effort required; for example, gene deletion experiment can take a few weeks depending on the microorganisms. Furthermore, as certain genes are essential or play important roles for the survival of a microorganism, gene knockout experiments cannot be performed. Even worse, there are many different microbial strains one can employ. There are more than 50 different E. coli strains that metabolic engineer can consider to use. Since gene knockout experiment is hard-coded (that is, one should repeat the gene knockout experiments for each strain), the result cannot be easily transferred from one strain to another. | |
A paper published in Nature Biotechnology online ("Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli using synthetic small regulatory RNAs") today addresses this issue and suggests a new strategy for identifying gene targets to be knocked out or knocked down through the use of synthetic small RNA. A Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), reported that synthetic small RNA can be employed for finely controlling the expression levels of multiple genes at the translation level. Already well-known for their systems metabolic engineering strategies, Professor Lee's team added one more strategy to efficiently develop microbial cell factories for the production of chemicals and materials. | |
Gene expression works like this: the hard-coded blueprint (DNA) is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA), and the coding information in mRNA is read to produce protein by ribosomes. Conventional genetic engineering approaches have often targeted modification of the blueprint itself (DNA) to alter organism's physiological characteristics. Again, engineering the blueprint itself takes much time and effort, and in addition, the results obtained cannot be transferred to another organism without repeating the whole set of experiments. This is why Professor Lee and his colleagues aimed at controlling the gene expression level at the translation stage through the use of synthetic small RNA. They created novel RNAs that can regulate the translation of multiple messenger RNAs (mRNA), and consequently varying the expression levels of multiple genes at the same time. Briefly, synthetic regulatory RNAs interrupt gene expression process from DNA to protein by destroying the messenger RNAs to different yet controllable extents. The advantages of taking this strategy of employing synthetic small regulatory RNAs include simple, easy and high-throughput identification of gene knockout or knockdown targets, fine control of gene expression levels, transferability to many different host strains, and possibility of identifying those gene targets that are essential. | |
As proof-of-concept demonstration of the usefulness of this strategy, Professor Lee and his colleagues applied it to develop engineered E. coli strains capable of producing an aromatic amino acid tyrosine, which is used for stress symptom relief, food supplements, and precursor for many drugs. They examined a large number of genes in multiple E. coli strains, and developed a highly efficient tyrosine producer. Also, they were able to show that this strategy can be employed to an already metabolically engineered E. coli strain for further improvement by demonstrating the development of highly efficient producer of cadaverine, an important platform chemical for nylon in the chemical industry. | |
This new strategy, being simple yet very powerful for systems metabolic engineering, is thus expected to facilitate the efficient development of microbial cell factories capable of producing chemicals, fuels and materials from renewable biomass. |
Source: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |


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from: "Tim Osborn"
subject: RE: FW: FOI_08-50 ; EIR_08-01
to: "Jones Philip Prof"
Hi Phil!
re. your email to Dave Palmer [which he copied in his response to you and
cc'd to me, Keith & Michael McGarvie, and which has hence already been
multiply copied within the UEA system, and therefore will probably exist
for a number of months and possibly years, and could be released under FOI
if a request is made for it during that time!]... I assume that you didn't
delete any emails that David Holland has requested (because that would be
illegal) but that instead his request merely prompted you to do a spring
clean of various other emails that hadn't been requested, as part of your
regular routine of deleting old emails. If that is what you meant, then
it might be a good idea to clarify your previous email to Dave Palmer, to
avoid it being misunderstood. :-)
The way things seem to be going, I think it best if we discuss all FOI,
EIR, Data Protection requests in person wherever possible, rather than via
email. It's such a shame that the skeptics' vexatious use of this
legislation may prevent us from using such an efficient modern technology
as email, but it seems that if we want to have confidential discussions
then we may need to avoid it.
I shall delete this email and those related to it as part of my regular
routine of deleting old emails!


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Stochastic Oscillator
The Stochastic Oscillator is used to track market momentum and was developed by Dr. George Lane.
The indicator consists of two lines:
- %K compares the latest closing price to the recent trading range.
- %D is a signal line calculated by smoothing %K.
The number of periods used in the indicator can be varied according to the purpose for which the Stochastic Oscillator is used:
Purpose: | %K Periods | %D Periods | Overbought level | Oversold level | Comments: |
Combine with trend indicator | 5 to 10 days | 3 days | 80% | 20% | Very sensitive |
Stand-alone or trade longer cycles | 14 or 21 days | 3 days | 70% | 30% | Only shows important turning points |
Slow Stochastic incorporates further smoothing and is often used to provide a more reliable signal.
Stochastic Oscillator Trading Signals
If the Stochastic Oscillator hovers near 100 it signals accumulation. Stochastic lurking near zero indicates distribution.
The shape of a Stochastic bottom gives some indication of the ensuing rally. A narrow bottom that is not very deep indicates that bears are weak and that the following rally should be strong. A broad, deep bottom signals that bears are strong and that the rally should be weak.
The same applies to Stochastic tops. Narrow tops indicate that the bulls are weak and that the correction is likely to be severe. High, wide tops indicate that bulls are strong and the correction is likely to be weak.
Ranging Markets
Signals are listed in order of their importance:
- Go long on bullish divergence (on %D) where the first trough is below the Oversold level.
- Go long when %K or %D falls below the Oversold level and rises back above it.
- Go long when %K crosses to above %D.
Short signals:
- Go short on bearish divergence (on %D) where the first peak is above the Overbought level.
- Go short when %K or %D rises above the Overbought level then falls back below it.
- Go short when %K crosses to below %D.
Place stop-losses below the most recent minor Low when going long (or above the most recent minor High when going short).
%K and %D lines pointed in the same direction are used to confirm the direction of the short-term trend.
Lane also used Classic Divergences, a type of triple divergence.
Trending Markets
Only take signals in the direction of the trend and never go long when the Stochastic Oscillator is overbought, nor short when oversold.
Use trailing buy- and sell-stops to enter trades and protect yourself with stop-losses.
If %K or %D falls below the Oversold line, place a trailing buy-stop. When you are stopped in, place a stop loss below the Low of the recent down-trend (the lowest Low since the signal day).
If Stochastic Oscillator rises above the Overbought line, place a trailing sell-stop. When you are stopped in, place a stop loss above the High of the recent up-trend (the highest High since the signal day).
Use a trend indicator to exit.
Stochastic Example
The Slow Stochastic Example illustrates the trading signals. This study focuses on the trailing stop entry technique used in a trending market.
Intel Corporation is shown with a 21 day exponential moving average (MA) and 7 day Stochastic %K and %D. The Moving Average (MA) is used as the trend indicator with closing price as a filter.
Mouse over chart captions to display trading signals.
- %K falls below 20. Place a trailing buy-stop just above the day's High of $33 1/2.
- Move the buy-stop down to $33, above the High of day 2.
- Move the stop down to above the High of day 3.
- Move the stop down to $32 1/2 - one tick above the High on day 4.
- The day opens with a new Low of $31 3/8 and then rises until we are stopped in at $32 1/2. Place a stop-loss below the Low (i.e.. the lowest Low since day [1]). Thereafter, price falls back to the day's Low, but fails to activate the stop-loss one tick below.
- Exit when price closes below the MA.
Stochastic Oscillator Setup
See Indicator Panel for directions on how to set up an indicator. The default settings are:
- %K - 5 days
- %D - 3 days
- Both are calculated using simple moving averages
- overbought level - 70%
- oversold level - 30%
To alter the default settings - see Edit Indicator Settings.
Stochastic Oscillator Formula
To calculate the Stochastic Oscillator:
- The first step is to decide on the number of periods (%K Periods) to be included in the calculation. The norm is 5 days, but this should be based on the time frame that you are analyzing.
- Then calculate %K, by comparing the latest Closing price to the range
traded over the selected period:
CL = Close [today] - Lowest Low [in %K Periods]
HL =Highest High [in %K Periods] - Lowest Low [in %K Periods]
%K = CL / HL *100 - Calculate %D by smoothing %K. The original formula used a 3 period simple moving average, but this can be varied, based on the time frame that you are analyzing.


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Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.
Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms.